h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well I got 54%,47% and 60%

Does that mean I don't get the job as an interior designer?

Noggin

I got 100% on all three.

az
(only did about 40 clicks on each though)

Sceptic

Evidence?

Because the C4 racing news never mentioned it, and mum was an avid race fan when she lived with me, and we would have remembered.

I know it was a theory...

But there were people looking out for Shergar colts and fillies and wondering whether the bloodlines were actually lost (this is prior to routine dna testing being available)...

Jez

91-94% But if the compiler of these tests dis not have 20-20 vision
or a 100% record any further reading would of course be flawed.
Colour blindness some of you with what is described as colour blindnes will have a advantage in interputing what i describe as shades of grey (red-green-blue)(orange-greem-purple)(pink-lime-mauve)

Actually, I'd be quite happy never to see the colour mauve again! In fact, I think it should be made illegal.

az

The C 4 in the previous post refers to the UK television channel, not to whatever the h2g2 site has linked it to...

Jez

que mauve!
why mauve
quesque u say mauve(masercrated frenchaise)
that a new one
even for me
"Jim Beam"

Sceptic

My brother-in-law's brother is completely colour-blind, and is a painter - an RA, in fact... Do you remember the pictures behind the settee? The fishing boat was one of his early works.

I wonder when the article was written...

Jez

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Unfortunately, not...
Please tell me more.

Fascinating, Alji! I think my ex would come under the 'Protan' category. Thanks for the link!

I got 97% on the first, and 96% on the other two. Sometimes I had a hard choice, other times, it was so easy...

Wow, I thought I'd get 100% on all three, but for some reason, I didn't... Not far off, though. People say women are more aware of niceties of shade than men are, but I am sure that's cultural - men say green, women say chartreuse, jade, forest etc. One of my sisters has a really hard time with blue and green where they shade into one another, we had a dispute about the ownership of some babt clothes over it once. Sigh... One of my sons got upset once because I had washed a T shirt, and it was the exact shade he wanted to wear with some shorts. I couldn't see the difference between it and the other T shirt he offered, so that proves it's cultural...He's a guy, I am a woman.

Last year's Reith Lecture series, which is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 about this time every year, was by a psychologist based in the USA. He was briefly known as Ram because his Indian name (Ramakrishnan?) was a bit of a mouthful. He started by discussing synaesthesia and went on to apply it to other psychological phenomena. Many people here listened and enjoyed it I think. I bet someone knows whether the text is still available online and, if so, where. Anyone got it?

toxx

Sounds fascinating - synaesthesia (sp?) is an interesting phenomenon!

Della. I only mentioned it now because you appear to have it as you see letters in colour, or do I have it slightly wrong? Ram argues that other areas of the brain may be, or become, similarly cross wired and explains many behaviours as a consequence of this. I'll have a hunt for a reference to the text online since none of the gang has responded.

toxx

I cannot visualise, so I cannot actually *see* them, but it's the idea that the alphabet is coloured - a=red,b=royal blue.. down to x=dark blue, y=turquoise,z=gold. I discovered that my brother and my friend had *their* alphabet colours, which differed sometimes quite strongly, but whether they saw them or just 'knew' them, I am not sure. But that's why some words are certain colours.
Cities, (any names, really, so that Africa, Annjanette and Adric are all red, Zambia is gold);and some others, abstract concepts (Power is rich vegetable green, Faith is pink, Patience is green) also have colours relating to their initial letter. These *are* the colours, I don't determine them. Sadly, Della is mud brown, and my RL surname is dark blue, so we've got misery colours there.
I found Alji's colour blindness links fascinating!
White/pink/red/peach/royal blue/silver green/pink! (Punctuation isn't coloured...
My mother used to say "Listen to that smell" when she encountered a strong one, and as I was typing that, a little old lady with *very* strong (and quite nice) perfume just came and used the copier a metre to my right.

Della. I still think you have a form of synaesthesia. Here's a link to the lectures. There's the full audio and a text transcript plus diagrams. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/

I think and hope you will find at least some of it enjoyable.

toxx

good stuff

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!

I just got 92% on each of those tests!!!!!!!!!!!!